Arrange vs. Order

Arrange vs. Order — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Arrange and Order

Arrangeverb

(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

Ordernoun

(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

Arrangeverb

To plan; to prepare in advance.

to arrange to meet;   to arrange for supper

Ordernoun

(countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

Arrangeverb

To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

Ordernoun

(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
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Arrangeverb

put into a proper or systematic order;

arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order

Ordernoun

(countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

to preserve order in a community or an assembly

Arrangeverb

make arrangements for;

Can you arrange a meeting with the President?

Ordernoun

(countable) A command.

Arrangeverb

plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

Ordernoun

(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

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Arrangeverb

set (printed matter) into a specific format;

Format this letter so it can be printed out

Ordernoun

(countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles

St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.

Arrangeverb

arrange attractively;

dress my hair for the wedding

Ordernoun

(countable) An association of knights

the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.

Arrangeverb

adapt for performance in a different way;

set this poem to music

Ordernoun

any group of people with common interests.

Arrangeverb

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;

arrange my scheduleset up one's lifeI put these memories with those of bygone times

Ordernoun

(countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.

Ordernoun

A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.

Ordernoun

A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.

the higher or lower orders of societytalent of a high order

Ordernoun

An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.

to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry

Ordernoun

(architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.

Ordernoun

(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.

Ordernoun

(electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.

Ordernoun

(chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.

Ordernoun

(set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.

Ordernoun

For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).

Ordernoun

(graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.

Ordernoun

(order theory) A partially ordered set.

Ordernoun

(order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.

Ordernoun

(algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.

A quadratic polynomial, a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.

Orderverb

(transitive) To set in some sort of order.

Orderverb

(transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.

Orderverb

(transitive) To issue a command to.

to order troops to advanceHe ordered me to leave.

Orderverb

(transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

to order groceries

Orderverb

To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

Ordernoun

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed;

the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London

Ordernoun

a degree in a continuum of size or quantity;

it was on the order of a milean explosion of a low order of magnitude

Ordernoun

established customary state (especially of society);

order ruled in the streetslaw and order

Ordernoun

logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;

we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation

Ordernoun

a condition of regular or proper arrangement;

he put his desk in orderthe machine is now in working order

Ordernoun

a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge);

a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there

Ordernoun

a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities;

IBM received an order for a hundred computers

Ordernoun

a formal association of people with similar interests;

he joined a golf clubthey formed a small lunch societymen from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

Ordernoun

a body of rules followed by an assembly

Ordernoun

(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy;

theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate order

Ordernoun

a group of person living under a religious rule;

the order of Saint Benedict

Ordernoun

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

Ordernoun

a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.);

I gave the waiter my order

Ordernoun

(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans

Ordernoun

putting in order;

there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list

Orderverb

give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;

I said to him to go homeShe ordered him to do the shoppingThe mother told the child to get dressed

Orderverb

make a request for something;

Order me some flowersorder a work stoppage

Orderverb

issue commands or orders for

Orderverb

bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations;

We cannot regulate the way people dressThis town likes to regulate

Orderverb

bring order to or into;

Order these files

Orderverb

place in a certain order;

order these files

Orderverb

appoint to a clerical posts;

he was ordained in the Church

Orderverb

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;

arrange my scheduleset up one's lifeI put these memories with those of bygone times

Orderverb

assign a rank or rating to;

how would you rank these students?The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide